Whole School - Sign Language Awareness Week

Lesson: PSHE and citizenship

Class: Year 1 Year: 2024 - 2025

We celebrated Sign Language Awareness week by inviting Father Mark into school to teach us some sign language.

We spoke about why Sign Language is important so that everyone is treated fairly and justly, linking to our Year of Justice and the Catholic Social Teaching principle of Human Dignity. 

Father Mark wrote a prayer with our help that we will use throughout our Year of Justice and we learnt the signs for fair, hunger, thirst and rights.

We also then followed this up by learning how to spell our own names in British Sign Language, taking home a sheet to share this with our families. 

"My name was really hard to sign because I have a double letter" - William

"I really enjoyed working with Father Mark, I'm excited to hear the final prayer" - Penelope